Letter: A writer's response

Friday

I appreciate Mr. Harrington’s service and the service of his sons and am glad that none of them have had the “uncontrollable urge to shoot something” which was meant tongue in cheek.

I appreciate Mr. Harrington’s service and the service of his sons and am glad that none of them have had the “uncontrollable urge to shoot something” which was meant tongue in cheek. Being the daughter of a career Navy man, the sister of an Air Force enlistee, and the sister-in-law of an Army draftee who was killed in Vietnam just two months after arriving in-country, I’m not ignorant of the ways of military service as he would suggest. I appreciate the fact that the Navy put food on our family's table for over 20 years. For Mr. Harrington to mistakenly interpret that I suggested that the majority of servicemen enlist to “shoot something” is just disingenuous and wrong.

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